Principal Investigator; lead researcher for components G1, M
Pádraic Moran is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Galway, with research interests in the cultural history of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, focusing on education, scholarship and language interaction—especially Latin (including Hiberno-Latin), Greek and Old Irish.
He has published widely on Latin and Old Irish grammars, glosses and glossaries. These include digital editions of early Irish glossaries and Irish glosses on Priscian's Latin grammar; a 592-page monograph edition of the seventh-century text De origine scoticae linguae (O'Mulconry's Glossary); Irish manuscripts of Latin texts; and broader comparative cultural studies, with a special interest in Japan and East Asia.
Website: http://www.pmoran.ie
E-mail: padraic.moran@universityofgalway.ie
Postdoctoral Researcher, network analysis and linked data
Dr Sudhansu Bala Das is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP), linguistics, and data science-driven text analysis. She earned her PhD from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India (2020–2024), where she explored low-resource Indian languages, linguistic structures, and data-driven approaches to machine translation. Her doctoral thesis, "Exploring the Efficacy of Machine Translation Systems for Indian Languages", made significant contributions to the field, leading to publications in high-impact journals and top-tier conferences, including CORE A venues.
Before pursuing her PhD, she accumulated four years of research experience at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), India, where she worked on text and speech processing, networking, and real-time data science projects. She also has teaching experience at the undergraduate level. She completed her MTech at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, where she was awarded the university gold medal for academic excellence. Her research during this time focused on educational technology and computational thinking.
Her expertise and contributions to NLP, machine translation, and localization have been widely recognized, earning her prestigious accolades such as the AI Excellence Award (SAMVAD 2023) and the Best Localization Blog Paper Award (SAMVAD 2024).
As part of the GLOSSAM project, she will focus on network analysis, leveraging advanced NLP and data science techniques to explore, link, and analyze diverse datasets and manuscripts.
Funded by the Insight Centre for Data Analytics as part of a collaboration with the University of Galway's Data Science Institute.
PhD Researcher, component L1
Chiara Corongiu is a graduate of the University of Cagliari, where she studied Classical Philology. She has broad research interests in Latin and Greek language and literature. Her role on the GLOSSAM project involves analysing the reception of Latin literature and the Latin learned tradition based on the evidence of glosses in Irish manuscripts.
Postdoctoral Researcher, component G2
Adrian Ó Dubhghaill's work focuses on computational techniques and resources to support under-resourced and minority languages. His research interests are in the areas of Natural Language Processing, as well as the Celtic languages, in particular, Old Irish. He created the Würzburg Irish Glosses website and two Universal Dependencies treebanks of Old Irish glosses.
Adrian received his BA from University College Cork in 2012 and an MA in Medieval Celtic Languages and Literature (Early Irish and Medieval Welsh) from University College Dublin in 2013. He studied Information Systems for Business Performance in University College Cork and was awarded an MSc in 2016. He also received a Higher Diploma in Irish (TEG Level C1) from the University of Galway in 2020. His PhD research, completed in 2024 under the supervision of Dr John McCrae and Dr Clodagh Downey, addressed the application of NLP techniques to diplomatically edited Old Irish text.
Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher
Vittorio Remo Danovi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His research currently focuses on the tradition of Vergilian scholarship between Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period. He completed his D.Phil. at the University of Oxford with a thesis on the transmission of the DS scholia on the Aeneid, and his project at the University of Galway is entitled ‘Irish readings of Vergil: the Philargyrian corpus and its medieval reception’. In association with the GLOSSAM project, he will explore the relationships between the Philargyrian corpus and the glosses in high-medieval manuscripts of Priscian, and he will investigate how annotated copies of Vergil could be used as tools to store and produce knowledge during the Carolingian Age.
Postdoctoral Researcher, component L2
Mary Sweeney is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with the GLOSSAM project. She completed her PhD at the University of Galway on Hellenistic Judean identity within the context of the fragmentary tragedy the Exagoge of Ezekiel. Her research interests include exploring cross-cultural exchanges, and the inheritance of Greek educational practices and Greek language materials in the Latin West. Within the project, Mary’s research will include examining the role of glosses in the transmission of knowledge in Europe with a focus on the glossing tradition in the sixth-century Latin grammar of Priscian.
E-mail: msweeney@universityofgalway.ie
